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English
Noun
tin penny
- (UK, historical) A duty paid to tithingmen.
1798, Hutton Wood, A Collection of Decrees by the Court of the Exchequer in Tithe-Causes, from the Usurpation to the Present Time, volume the third, page 526:He further said, that the plaintiff had sometimes at Easter, when he received his Easter dues, received some payment for some kinds of small tithes in respect of those tenements which were no part of the Demesne Lands, viz. for every milch cow, three halfpence ; […] and a tithe penny, otherwise tin penny, otherwise tithing penny, as a modus in lieu of all other small tithes and vicarial dues in kind,
References
- Nathan Bailey (1736) Dictionarium Britanicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant.